French President Emmanuel Macron said Sunday that Belarus’s leader Alexander Lukashenko must step down, after the EU refused to recognise him as the legitimate president of the ex-Soviet country.
Joe Biden says Supreme Court nomination is a “threat to democracy” – BBC News
The Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has appealed to Republican senators to delay appointing a new justice to the US Supreme Court until after elections in November. Donald Trump has nominated a religious...
Armenia and Azerbaijan clash over disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region | DW News
Heavy fighting has erupted in the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Both sides reported casualties in air and artillery attacks, and each accused the other of starting...
Covid-19: China’s dilemma over wild meat trade – BBC News
China is facing mounting pressure to restart its wild animal meat trade despite the fact it’s still not clear where the coronavirus outbreak started or how it spread. Breeding snakes and types of rat for food or...
Trump nominates religious conservative Amy Coney Barrett to Supreme Court – BBC News
President Trump has announced that he is nominating the conservative federal judge Amy Coney Barrett to serve on the US Supreme Court. The nomination will trigger a bitter political battle in Congress as Republicans try...
COVID-19: A third of tests in England cannot be processed by NHS app
The developers of the new NHS coronavirus tracing app have admitted that more than 60,000 tests carried out in England yesterday – just under a third of the total – cannot be linked to its systems. The...
Coronavirus: Oldham residents adjust to pubs in England’s new closing time
Oldham has already been under tighter COVID-19 restrictions for five weeks, but infection rates are still rising. So how will the city’s residents adjust as a 10pm curfew is introduced across England for pubs.